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Checking in. Thanks for the selection! Very excited to play this adventure path! :)
Reporting in. Thanks for selecting me! I really like the idea behind this character and have been looking forward to the chance to play her. I'll add stats shortly.
Checking in. Looking forward to it.
Any advice or suggestions on how to treat my blindness curse will be helpful, as well as rulings on just how much I can or can't see. My basic understanding is that I can make out general shapes as long as they're close up, but that's about it - everything looks like through frosted glass.
Jorland the Shuhite has arrived....I'm the cook for this party.......just don't ask whats in it and you'll be fine.
Ninja Luna stepping out of the shadows here. Thanks for selecting me to join the group!
Since Jorland's background has him as a cook at the Rusty Dragon, I'll revise Luna's background to have her working as a waitress instead of as a cook. I'll re-allocate the skill point I put in Profession (Cook) to another skill.
Takeshi would also know Luna since she and her mother were servants in the Kaijitsu household (Luna is two years older than Ameiko). However, he would not know about her ninja skills. I believe Takeshi and Luna both share a similar dislike for Sandru.
Looking forward to starting the adventure!
Those of you who are familiar Ameiko and frequent the Rusty dragon know me as the cook. My foods taste great but have strange names. I also make new concoctions from time to time. Always called Jorland's surprise. Always tastes different.
I am pretty close with Ameiko. She and I talk a lot. Those of you who hang around Ameiko a lot would know my back story.
Looking forward to everyone confusing our names, Luna? I wondered about that from the moment you applied to the game - funny we both made it in!
You're right, Lina. Hmmm... I wonder if that's one of the reasons why we both made it?
Luna's known Ameiko since she was born (Luna is two years older than Ameiko). Luna's mother was a servant in the Kaijitsu household, and Luna and Ameiko grew up together. When Luna came of age she became a servant as well, and worked in the Kaijitsu household until Lord Kaijitsu was murdered. Since then she's workded as a waitress at the Rusty Dragon.
Hey everybody, glad you all could make it. I just landed and will kick it off tomorrow morning my time. Think about where you would like to start off, in the dragon, from the road or what have you. It should be fun.
How about we start at the Rusty Dragon? Jorland and Luna would be working, Takeshi could be visiting Ameiko, Lina could be making moon-eyes at Ameiko, and Kallistrine could have just arrived with Sandru's caravan.
Of course, if Sandru is at the Rusty Dragon, Jorland could burn his food and Luna could spill it all over him...
Decided to use Liu Na's actual spelling for her name. It still sounds like "Luna".
Lina just got back into town after an absence of about 4 years - it could certainly make sense that she'd go have a bite to eat at the rusty dragon while she gets her bearings and tries to figure out where to go from here.
While the chance to meet Ameiko again will certainly be a bonus, Lina won't be making moon eyes at anyone. She'd have too hard a time figuring out just who she's looking at.
Kali'd be in with the caravaners, just off the road, looking to unwind.
Spunky bunch of ladies in this one......and a LOT of Ameiko fans. Wow this will be interesting.
Since we all pretty much seem to be attached to Ameiko in some way, what should be our relations to each other.
Jorland tend to talk a bit but he also listens too. He is very open and honest and hates liars.
So, as cook of the Rusty Dragon, how much would I know about Liu Na and Lina?
P.S. If you frequent the Rusty Dragon, you know to be cautious of Jorland's Surprise. Every so often he produces some new concoction that is either a hit or a miss.
Two weeks ago he made an excellent stir-fry out of various herbs and veggies he found in the wild or had grown at home and cooked them in Linnorn Mead. Turned out great.
A week ago he made a special dish of goblin toes and fingers cooked in BBQ sauce. Wasn't so great.
People at the Tavern tend to make bets on if it is a good week or bad.
Another thing. Jorland is very sensitive about his height. Anyone who has joked about it finds themselves in a fight for their life. Jorland doesn't always win but he makes his point. He is usually very friendly and easy to approach otherwise. Diplomacy +8 and all
Important to note also. Jorland loves chatting with Ameiko. He is always asking about her homeland. The events that plagued Sandpoint, he treads carefully when talking about her family, Jorland knows all about how easy it can be to offend someone, and about other stories about her life. He usually does what he can to support her and he tends to hang around her a lot, even when he's not working.
So there is somethings most of you would know. Again, Jorland has nothing to hide, he's quite open with anyone, just a good amount more with Ameiko.
EDIT: Oh and for where I'd be. If not on patrol or hunting in the morning, I would be hanging out at the Rusty Dragon all evening. It's where I like to spend most of my time.
So, as cook of the Rusty Dragon, how much would I know about Liu Na and Lina?
Jorland would know that Liu Na's known Ameiko since she was born (Luna is two years older than Ameiko). Liu Na's mother was a servant in the Kaijitsu household, and Liu Na and Ameiko grew up together. When Liu Na came of age she became a servant as well, and worked in the Kaijitsu household until Lord Kaijitsu was murdered. Since then she's worked as a waitress at the Rusty Dragon.
Jorland and Liu Na probably get along pretty well. Watching how Jorland behaves around Ameiko, Liu Na likely knows that the Ulfen has a crush on her friend. Liu Na would be supportive of this, as she thinks rather highly of Jorland - and he's much better for Ameiko than that no-good Sandru!
It's unlikely that anyone would know me. Sandpoint's a small town, and I lived there until I was 16, but that was 4 years ago and even then I mostly kept to myself. I'm not even sure Ameiko knew my name, as I mostly watched (obsessed) over her from a distance. Anyways, I no longer have any living relatives in town either.
Kali is new to Sandpoint, so everything except Sandru is new to her.
Fantastic! This should be good. Can't wait to get started.
@Kali, would it be cool if you start off with Sandru in the Sheriff's office? You would be with him giving the report about the Licktoads.
Hey I am currently a member of the Licktoads! Have they mentioned the famous Klepy? Valeg? Tark or Bucko and the Efesti Skwad?
Sorry, I have a character in the We be goblins campaign. Pretty intense
Yeah me too,
Ok so I got the ball rolling. You can choose to be almost anywhere
For Kali,
With the Sherriff sounds good.
GMEDWIN, did you have any comments about my blindness? It says I have darkvision up to 30' but I'd like to clarify just how much detail I can make out with that (other than the obvious colorblindness).
I'm just waiting to pose until things progress to the Sherriff's office or Sandru and Kali move to the Inn.
I hope you don't mind me throwing in some details about Sandpoint from Rise of the Runelords - they're very much spoilers for anyone who hasn't played that campaign, but since this adventure supposedly takes place after that one I figure some of the major events would be common knowledge to the people living here.
Sorry everybody, we had a power outage for over 15 hours. The blindness thing, hey its your character be as blind as you want. You can mention stuff from ROTRL or Second Darkness and any of the other APs that works.
Ok. It says I can see black and white, so I'm going to say while I can make out general shapes and outlines (enough to know what to aim at when in combat, etc) I don't really see details, and anything beyond 30' is just a blur.
That work?
Just to throw in my 2c. Technically, by RAW, you can see perfectly fine within 30ft (e.g. no penalties to perception) and you have the added bonus of having darkvision. Beyond that you can see nothing (so the typical blindness penatlies to perception). Whether it was darkness, one large blur, or even if all you see at 30ft is a whirlwind of butterflies, is just flavour text and up to you.
Yep, I'm not going to have it give me any mechanical penalty, but for flavor I'm gonna say my vision is pretty hindered within the 30'. It very much fits my backstory and character design.
Whatever makes you happy is fine with me....
Hey Jorland: I just read in your description that you're planning to take a couple of levels in Ninja, and that you've been studying books on the subject. We could also say that Liu Na knows of your interest and has been teaching you a few basics as well - that way you won't be surprised when she offers to help against the goblins and breaks out all of her ninja badness.
Yeah thats a good idea. Cool. I like how things have been falling into place. Good group we have.
Hey guys, Could you all chime in on the PM saying to me where you would like to get relationshipwise with each of the four primary NPCs. Because according to the AP you get XP awards and stuff.
Just write:
A=
K=
SV=
SA=
Then write TF or TE(Trait Friend or enemy), PF or PE(primary), and the other two put something like friendly or unfriendly. Then I will assign points and xp when it is earned.
In addition, you can say what you would like to see happen.
I put up the preliminary Companion/Rival stuff, I have left a few at 0 because your character hasn't met the NPC in Gameplay yet.
For those of you who haven't PMed me yet, please do so. I want everyone to have a fun RPing time and swap ideas about how you would like the story to go.
Hey all! I hope everyone is enjoying the campaign so far.
Definitely!
Good stuff so far. Just a suggestion - and if you prefer to have a less structured combat system (more like most of us used to do back in 2nd edition) and hand-wave placement you're welcome to do so - but even if you're not an artist there's plenty of ways to come up with some sort of grid for combat.
There's Google Docs, and you can just use a spreadsheet for the grid and letters or numbers to represent players and monsters. If you're feeling adventurous, you can even add colors or lines for terrain. Example
There's MapTool, which provides lots of images of terrain and structures that you can throw together on a grid, then simply turn it into an image to share with us. Also has a tool that makes it easy to create tokens out of each player's avatar pic to move around the map. Example
Hope that helps!
Yeah, I kind of go back to the old school. We didnt have miniatures and stuff. i'll see what I can do.
I just hope I am not too hand's on. But, waiting for the GM to post is a bit of a peeve of mine. Ill see what i can do with the map tools. I have seen other GMs have all of the enemies go at once, would you guys prefer that or do you like having it broken up by character?
Due to the nature of PbP, when I run a game I usually am pretty flexible with initiative. I'll roll groups of enemies together (all goblins go together, but if there's a big boss among them he might get his own initiative) and then invite players to post their intentions any time within their given initiative group. I'm not sure that makes any sense so let me give an example:
Initiative:
24 - Player 1
19 - monsters
14 - Player 2
13 - Player 3
7 - Player 4
So in this case after player 1 posts, I'll post with the actions of all the monsters, and then all players can post their intentions for this round. Once everyone has posted (I usually give 24 hour limit) I'll wrap up their actions in a summary post, and then have the monsters' actions again.
I figure combat in PbP can get bogged down and slow down the game so much that I try to do anything I can to keep it moving better.
You certainly don't have to do it that way, it's just what has worked for me.
Kalistrine
So...we have the choice of roasted game birds or roasted...faceless stalker for dinner. I wonder which is going to be more popular...
Anyone mind if I keep the cloak?
Liu Na may make a meal of her trail rations this evening...
I'm good with Lina keeping the cloak.
I will fight you for it!
Just kidding.
Any defenses we give the healer are a good thing!
I'll let you have it but in return you need to eat what I prepare for you. Deal?
Um....how about I'll agree to taste it.
Hey quick question ala Goldilocks, Am I pushing it forward too quickly, slowly or just right?